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SAFETY STIRRUP'. No. 332.052. Patented Dec. 8; 1885.

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SAFETY-STI RRUP.

SPECEPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,052, dated December 8, 1885.

Application filed September 7, 1885. Serial No. 176,450.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY COATES, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Safety-Stirrups, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figurel is a rear elevation of one of my improved safety-stirrups. Fi 2 is a sectional elevation of the same, taken through the line m m, Fig. 1.

My invention relates to that class of stirrups which are provided with a pivoted guard to prevent the foot from entering too far into the stirrup; and the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

A represents the frame of the stirrup, which is provided with a loop, B, to receive the stirrup-strap, and its foot-piece is provided with points 0, to prevent the foot of the rider from slipping.

To the upper parts of the arms of the stirrup-frame A is attached a pivot, D, or two short pivots, upon which is placed a tubular cross-head, E, with which is connected an arched bar, F, placed at such a distance above the foot-piece of the stirrup as to prevent the riders foot from being thrust too far into the said stirrup. The forward sides of the end parts of the arched guard-bar 1* rest against stop projections Gr, formed upon or attached to the arms of the stirrup-frame A, to prevent the said arched guardbar from swinging forward beyond the plane of the stirrup-frame, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The ends of the (No model.)

arched guard-bar F will yield when the bar is pressed inward, and the bar will by this spring action be held securely within the stirrup against rattling, and can only be withdrawn from the stirrup by thefoot of the ridershould he fall, as above described. VVit-h this construction the necessity of a spring for holding the guard against the stirrup will be avoided. It will also be noticed that my stirrup is made in one piece and the entire guard in one piece, thus avoiding the necessity of making several castings, as in a prior construction, and the cross-piece E forms the bottom of the straploop.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with the stirrup A,having the loop portion B and the stops G G, of the guard consisting of the crosspiece E, piv: oted within and forming the bottom of the loop, and the arched bar F, connected to the cross-piece E, and abutting at its ends against the stops, substantially as described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a safety-stirrup consisting of the stirrup A,

formed with the loop portion B and the stoplugs G G, the guard consisting of the cross piece E, pivoted at D within the loop portion of the stirrup, and the arched bar F, of elastic material, connected between its ends to the cross-piece, and constructed to spring within the sides of the stirrup and be held securely therein against accidental displacement, substantially as set forth.

HENRY OOATES.

Vitnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, O. SEDGwroK. 

